WIP: 1/24 Subaru Impreza WRC 2002 Tour de Corse

[potsie]

Looks great. Which carbon fibre decal did you use on the front lights? They look about the perfect scale in that last photo.
Cheers,
Grant.

[davezilla]

Hi Grant,

I used carbon decals by Modeler's. http://www.hlj.com/product/MDLD924
The F1 Specialties decals are very similar in the fineness of the pattern, but slightly lighter gray color.

[davezilla]

Finished pictures are here, visit this link for more pics.

[Seamus McRae]

Originally Posted by davezilla

Finished pictures are here, visit this link for more pics.

Hi guys

Have just found this site & been having a bit of a look around. Great Scoob Dave (especially the paint/decal job), but to be absolutely authentic as a WRC02 (& this is a bit nit picky), the bottom of the front spoiler is different to the WRC01's. If you look closely at pics, you'll see that the middle of the unit doesn't have the 'venturi effect' evident on the 01 car, but has a piece approx. 2" deep running the full length of the front splitter. I don't have my refs handy but IIRC, there are some subtle detail differences to the interior layout too.

[davezilla]

Thanks for digging up my old thread.

I didn't have many ref pics while building this kit besides the box art and a few blurry ones I found on Google. Maybe you can show me those pictures in question so I can fix those mistakes in the future. I'm planning on turning the Rally Japan 04 version into the '03 car, so any pics of that will be tremendously helpful as well.

Dave

[Seamus McRae]

Originally Posted by davezilla

Thanks for digging up my old thread.

I didn't have many ref pics while building this kit besides the box art and a few blurry ones I found on Google. Maybe you can show me those pictures in question so I can fix those mistakes in the future. I'm planning on turning the Rally Japan 04 version into the '03 car, so any pics of that will be tremendously helpful as well.

Dave

What prompted me to look a bit further into the 01/02 differences was when I looked at the front of the box. I then went back to my video of the 02 Coesica (I record every round of the WRC off cable) & that confirmed the different front end arrangement. Apart from that, refs have been pretty thin on the ground.

As to the WRC03, the most significant difference is the air vents on either side of the front spoiler - they don't exist on the 03 car. At 1st I tried plating them from behind & filling the hole - & then I found out there's a resin replacement made by Reji (IIRC) avail from MediaMix & not horribly expensive. The internal differences are:

*the little square box moulded on top of the transmission hump needs to be shaved off
*part C17 (fire bomb) sits behind the drivers seat
*part C1 (battery box) doesn't exist at all in that position
*part N15 (rear shelf) is completely wrong. it needs to be substituted with that part from the 01/02 car
*the remote damper cylinders moulded onto the rear of parts B24 &25 have to be removed

From memory I believe that's the extent of the mods. TMMI did a build of the Japan 04 car backdated to an 03 some time ago, which shows these mods. I'll dig it out tonight & let you know which issue it is so you can order the article from TMMI.

Shaun